Chapter 30: Demon Extermination Association

Chen Fengshi looked at Little An’s face, which seemed to be very seriously angry, and suddenly laughed. “Pretending to be angry, wanting to know my true thoughts, right? Stop pretending, how could you not understand what I’m thinking? You are obviously full of hostility and aggressive, how could your mind only be filled with thoughts of self-preservation and hiding from the Fungal Demons?”

Little An’s expression did not change at all, as if Chen Fengshi’s guess was just wishful thinking. “Reality is this cruel, being able to hide from the Fungal Demons and live well is already amazing.”

“Still pretending?” Chen Fengshi scoffed. “My thoughts are not too different from yours. Since it’s obvious that it’s a life-and-death relationship with the Fungal Demons, we can only eliminate them! Hide? How long can we hide? When the vast majority of people around us turn into Fungal Demon Parasites, it’s still a dead end! Waiting until then to fight back is already too late!”

After saying this, Little An’s expression didn’t seem to change, only her voice wasn’t as cold. “Sounds somewhat reasonable.”

Chen Fengshi gave her a thumbs up and said: “You really can pretend!”

After speaking, he stood up.

Little An asked in slight surprise: “That’s it?”

“For safety, I squatted for twice the time.” Chen Fengshi quickly relaxed himself, and then felt the tough and full feeling of his body slowly shrink. At the same time, the golden mist outside his body also followed and retracted into his body. Although there was consumption from this, he did not feel hungry, which indirectly showed that absorbing the red mist could indeed play a supplementary role.

“Fungal Demon Primordial Body—” Little An suddenly reached out, and Chen Fengshi directly handed her the Protoplast wrapped in tin foil. He watched her open the tin foil and pour the dust-sized Protoplast into her palm.

Immediately after, her body was covered by red mist, and that color looked really no different from the Fungal Demons. Then, from the Fungal Demon Primordial Body in her palm, three extremely slender red mist threads suddenly extended out. These three threads extended for about twenty centimeters, and then randomly waved in the void for a few seconds as if aimlessly.

Little An suddenly retracted her Power of Life, then wrapped the Protoplast in tin foil and handed it back to Chen Fengshi, directly turning around and leaving the greenbelt, unlocking the car door. “The Golden Power of Life indeed has the capital to be arrogant, perhaps it is the strongest Power of Life to directly confront the Fungal Demons.”

Chen Fengshi was curious, could Little An use the Protoplast to find Fungal Demon Parasites?

After the two returned to the car, before he even fastened his seatbelt, he asked: “Can you introduce the characteristics of the Power of Life?”

“Except for my Primordial Power of Life.” Little An didn’t wait for Chen Fengshi to ask, and after turning the corner, she said again: “Because currently only I possess it.”

Fine… Chen Fengshi gave up. Not knowing about hers was fine, knowing about the others would work too. “I sincerely ask for advice on the characteristics of the other colored power s.”

“You’ll know later, I don’t like being an encyclopedia.” Little An originally had no intention of being a teacher…

The car sped on the road, and Chen Fengshi quickly noticed that Little An was driving in circles in a fixed area. Such a wasteful behavior of gas, well, he didn’t understand.

Chen Fengshi held back from asking. Facing someone like Little An who loved to act cool, he felt the best way was: to out-cool her. Otherwise, he would only be able to play the role of habitually giving in to communicate with her. His dad had said that the relationship between people is determined by the initial running-in, which sets the future direction.

For someone with a strong personality like Little An, Chen Fengshi felt he must not show weakness. He had to carry an open-mindedness that if they couldn’t get along, they could just go their separate ways, in order to possibly obtain a relationship of equal dialogue. Of course, in this kind of confrontational situation, the vast majority would really end up parting ways. Since ancient times, people with independent personalities have been hard to get in sync with.

Little An’s phone suddenly rang. She glanced at it, parked the car by the road, and silently listened to the other side finish before saying: “Understood. I’ll have someone deliver her bonus and pension, you help give them to her family.”

Hanging up the phone, Little An was silent for a while. Chen Fengshi looked blankly at the darkness outside the car window, recalling the female cop Little Family Beauty who was happily eating hotpot with them just now, had unexpectedly passed away just like that…

Little An lit a mint cigarette and smoked it without even opening the window, letting the smoke fill the car.

Chen Fengshi found it choking, so he also took out his box of unfinished cigarettes and smoked along. By doing so, he didn’t feel it as choking anymore.

This was very strange. Clearly there was another person smoking, and the smoke in the car was thicker, but because he was smoking too, he didn’t feel it choking.

The engine was turned off, and the smoke was trapped inside, quickly filling the car until the vision was unclear, to the extent that one couldn’t even see their five fingers when reaching out a hand.

“When the ambulance arrived, the person was already dead, and the murderer confessed to the crime without hesitation. As for the revenge reason that the murderer firmly believed in, after preliminary verification, it can be confirmed that it was a fake memory planted by the Fungal Demons.” In the smoke, Chen Fengshi couldn’t see Little An’s expression, but he could hear the unconcealable sadness hidden in her voice.

So he understood, the smoke in the car was Little An’s shield that she didn’t want people to see her soft side.

“…She was discovered by the Fungal Demons a long time ago? Or does it have something to do with tonight’s events?” Chen Fengshi was afraid it was the latter. If it was because helping them evacuate the industrial area led to her exposure and she was murdered by a Fungal Demon Parasite, then he really didn’t know how to sort out his inner guilt.

“The murderer’s gun was homemade. From the interrogation confession, he had prepared for it for a week or two.” Little An’s answer made Chen Fengshi breathe a sigh of relief, but the sadness over Little Family Beauty’s death couldn’t be reduced because of this.

“Will the murderer’s behavior still be considered mental illness?”

“Does it matter?” Little An’s voice couldn’t show any hatred towards the murderer.

Yes, Chen Fengshi shook his head and smiled bitterly. The murderer was the murderer, but it could also be said that he wasn’t the murderer.

Chen Fengshi rolled down the car window, threw away the unfinished cigarette, and said hatefully: “Kill the Fungal Demon behind this!”

The smoke in the car found an outlet and continuously drifted out, dissipating with the gusts of Qingfeng outside.

Little An rolled down her car window, threw away her unfinished cigarette. Her expression still looked as habitually indifferent as ever, and she started the car and drove off.

“Since we chose to resist, death is inevitable. But for every one of us who dies, at least one Fungal Demon will be eliminated!” Little An’s gaze was very cold, and it also revealed obvious killing intent.

But Chen Fengshi really appreciated this killing intent, feeling that they shared a common thought. “War is destined to have deaths, but it’s impossible that only we need to pay the price of death!”

“You passed.” Little An said, and threw a paper bag to Chen Fengshi. He opened it and saw a mobile phone inside, along with five SIM cards, a bank card, a pair of gloves, and a thin hood that could be crumpled into a finger-sized ball.

“…Feels like joining a criminal gang…” Chen Fengshi felt that it was just short of a gun. On the forehead part of the unfolded hood, there was also the number seven.

“The SIM cards are for backup, each card has my different contact numbers stored in it. The gloves are cut-resistant, the hood is for self-protection, in case you have to be exposed to the sight of Fungal Demon Parasites, try to disguise your body shape a bit. The bank card will have salary and bonuses deposited into it on the first to fifth of every month.” Since Little An had prepared these early on, it meant she originally intended to accept him.

Chen Fengshi pointed at the number seven on the forehead of the hood and couldn’t help asking her: “Am I a replacement, or does it mean adding me makes seven people?”

“There are six now. Among them, two are also responsible for finance, logistics, and other work.” Little An answered very straightforwardly, and Chen Fengshi didn’t know what to feel. The missing one was, of course, Little Family Beauty. In other words, as companions, there were actually only four who possessed the Power of Life?

He originally thought he had joined a big family, but now he realized that this was really just slightly better than being alone.

“May I ask, the six people don’t include you, right?” This was Chen Fengshi’s last hope at this moment. This was the difference of one person, but a difference of twenty percent in numbers.

“Including me, six.” Little An straightforwardly shattered his last hope. They only had six people in total.

Chen Fengshi speechlessly waved that bank card and said with mixed feelings: “I thought we were a great organization saving the world against the evil Fungal Demons, but it turns out to be a pioneering group. Xuancheng is at least one of the four major cities of our country, and our companions are just us few?”

“In terms of the carrying probability of the Yanhuang Cambrian genetic information segment, it’s not few; as the number of rare Power of Life, it’s already a lot.” After Little An finished speaking, seeing Chen Fengshi’s speechless expression, she thought for a moment and told the truth: “The total number is more than this, but the combat faction is only us.”

Chen Fengshi’s eyes suddenly lit up, feeling that as long as there were more people, there was hope to unite together.

However, Little An had him change the SIM card, and then sent a short voice message. Inside was a recording of another woman, talking about basic information such as the Fungal Demons, the Power of Life, and their situation.

Chen Fengshi had just thought that Little An changed her nature and was willing to explain things after treating him as a companion, but then he found out that she could actually use this method to replace the dullness of repeating the explanations over and over again.

There was also a group in Xuancheng consisting of more than fifty Power of Life owners, who came together for mutual survival aid, and Little An was the Vice President.

But because of a conflict of ideas, she brought along companions who were willing to actively fight, and formed the current Demon Extermination Association team. The people in the Mutual Aid Association were afraid that she would drag them down, and asked her to either disband the Demon Extermination Association or quit the Mutual Aid Association. She originally looked down on their cowardice and had wanted to leave for a long time, so she left.

The three men and one woman Chen Fengshi saw last time with Little An were from the main combat faction of Yangcheng, and they came over to discuss with Little An about forming a grand alliance for the war of resistance.

The information of the other companions in the Demon Extermination Association couldn’t be known by Chen Fengshi right now. As a new member, he originally needed to pass a period of observation before he could join, but Little Family Beauty felt that the Golden Power of Life could play a big role, so she took the initiative to express her willingness to contact Chen Fengshi and be responsible for observing and evaluating him.

As a result… her mission ended just as it began.

“So, you are the President, and you bear the salary and bonuses?” Chen Fengshi waved the bank card and asked with great concern.

“That’s right.” Just as Little An finished speaking, Chen Fengshi gently placed the bank card on the car, which confused her. “What do you mean?”

“Since we are companions, I have no reason to accept this kind of baffling money. To put it bluntly, it’s just financial aid, I have other work.” Chen Fengshi put his hands behind his head, his tone casual.

Little An unceremoniously mocked: “Oh? Is the other work enough for you to eat? Or rather, is robbing robbers your job?”